Results 1 to 5 of 5
Thread Information
Users Browsing this Thread
There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)
-
04-27-2005, 01:14 PM #1
Appalled at U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo
This alone speaks volumns....Kathleen Moccio is a trustee of the American Immigration Law Foundation. Katherine Fennelly is a professor at the University of Minnesota's Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs.
http://www.startribune.com/stories/1519/5370930.html
Last update: April 26, 2005 at 7:12 PM
Kathleen Moccio and Katherine Fennelly:
Facts, not fear, should guide U.S. immigration
Kathleen Moccio and Katherine Fennelly
April 27, 2005 FENNELLY0427
We were appalled to learn that U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo of Colorado was invited to make a keynote speech at a Republican fundraising breakfast in Minnesota's Third Congressional District this weekend.
His brand of fear-mongering about illegal immigration and his active encouragement of vigilantes should have no place in Minnesota politics. Immigration reform is sorely needed in the United States, but responsible proposals must be based upon facts and not incendiary rhetoric.
The fact is that the American economy is dependent upon immigrant labor. As baby boomers retire, there will be a reduction in the size of the nation's workforce. Our rapidly "graying" nation relies upon immigrant workers to fill the gap.
Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank, and others have called upon Congress to recognize the importance of immigration as a means of reducing the likelihood of inflation in a tight labor market.
Tancredo rails against "illegal immigrants," but he doesn't address why so many undocumented workers come to the United States. The answer is that many industries recruit low-wage workers, but the government doesn't issue them visas. Less than 1 percent of the "employment-based visas" granted by the U.S. government are for low-skilled workers.
The result is that undocumented immigrant workers are vilified, while their industrial employers are rarely fined. Rather than closing our borders, we need to increase the numbers of workers over the next seven years to fill many of the 21 million new jobs projected by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Against the advice of the Department of Homeland Security, Tancredo is militant in his drive to seal the U.S. border. He has enthusiastically endorsed the "Minuteman Project," a group of armed volunteers who patrol the Arizona Border.
President Bush has called the militia "vigilantes," but Tancredo calls them "heroes" and has invited their leaders to address members of Congress in his Immigration Reform Caucus.
Among these so-called heroes are white supremacists from the neo-Nazi National Alliance. Members of the Alliance were at the project's kickoff, and some carried assault weapons in their trucks and boasted that they were scouting "sniper positions."
The vigilantism and militarization of the border called for by Tancredo make it more difficult to secure our borders, not less.
As Bush has acknowledged, "millions of hard-working men and women [are] condemned to fear and insecurity in a massive, undocumented economy. Illegal entry across our borders makes more difficult the urgent task of securing the homeland."
If the U.S. Border Patrol could be freed from futile attempts to block the entry of millions of Latino workers, they could concentrate their efforts on intercepting criminals and terrorists.
Rather than criminalizing immigrant workers, Congress should be considering the substantive proposals for immigration reform and the legalization of worker status proposed by both Democrats and Republicans.
Kathleen Moccio is a trustee of the American Immigration Law Foundation. Katherine Fennelly is a professor at the University of Minnesota's Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs.
-
04-27-2005, 03:14 PM #2
Diesel
Kathleen and Katherine,
We as Americans overrun by illegals in our neighborhood and streets know
all to well about the facts. We live with them every day. Arrogant, hostile
illegals. Mad with their country and hating ours for their upside down lives,
never trying once to change their own country. Every civilization has had
to change if it wanted to exist or cared about its people.
If these people wanted to do right they would not live like phantoms, they
obey the law and enter the country the right way. Obey and respect its laws.
It is amazing how some liberal Americans or even Hispanic Americans will
not face reality. Read the comments made by Hispanic professor and
organizations, they are telling you that you have not rights to lands owned
by them at one time. This attitude is very prevalent here in Texas.
Kathleen and Katherine Just maybe when you feel their wrath in your
neighbor, you will not be so pro-illegal immigration but if you two are,
take them home with you.
-
04-27-2005, 03:30 PM #3His brand of fear-mongering about illegal immigration and his active encouragement of vigilantes should have no place in Minnesota politics.
Immigration reform is sorely needed in the United States, but responsible proposals must be based upon facts and not incendiary rhetoric.
The fact is that the American economy is dependent upon immigrant labor.
As baby boomers retire, there will be a reduction in the size of the nation's workforce. Our rapidly "graying" nation relies upon immigrant workers to fill the gap.
Yet all this propaganda is excuse enough to justify an illegal alien invasion that they can come over here, thumb their noses at our laws, breed like rabbits and take over our country? I don't think so.
I know this is off topic, but isn't it funny that these fools who scream falsely about a declining population are all for abortion on demand?
Tancredo rails against "illegal immigrants," but he doesn't address why so many undocumented workers come to the United States. The answer is that many industries recruit low-wage workers, but the government doesn't issue them visas. Less than 1 percent of the "employment-based visas" granted by the U.S. government are for low-skilled workers.
The result is that undocumented immigrant workers are vilified, while their industrial employers are rarely fined.
Rather than closing our borders, we need to increase the numbers of workers over the next seven years to fill many of the 21 million new jobs projected by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
I have a better solution. How about you squatters stay on your side of the border and beg El Crackpot de Mexico for some jobs? It's not the responsibility of the US to feed, cloth, shelter and find work for the entire population of Mexico or anyone elses population for that matter, but our own.
Against the advice of the Department of Homeland Security, Tancredo is militant in his drive to seal the U.S. border. He has enthusiastically endorsed the "Minuteman Project," a group of armed volunteers who patrol the Arizona Border.
President Bush has called the militia "vigilantes," but Tancredo calls them "heroes" and has invited their leaders to address members of Congress in his Immigration Reform Caucus.
Among these so-called heroes are white supremacists from the neo-Nazi National Alliance. Members of the Alliance were at the project's kickoff, and some carried assault weapons in their trucks and boasted that they were scouting "sniper positions."
The vigilantism and militarization of the border called for by Tancredo make it more difficult to secure our borders, not less.
As Bush has acknowledged, "millions of hard-working men and women [are] condemned to fear and insecurity in a massive, undocumented economy.
Illegal entry across our borders makes more difficult the urgent task of securing the homeland."
If the U.S. Border Patrol could be freed from futile attempts to block the entry of millions of Latino workers, they could concentrate their efforts on intercepting criminals and terrorists.
Another thing to ask. We have a legal process that the world confirms to if they want to enter this country legally. Why should latinos have special treatment over anyone else? Because they are latino that they are above the law and we should just bow down to their every wish. That's absurd. So we should just let all latinos (particularly Mexicans) walk right on in and make everyone else stand in line and wait. That is garbage. Wait your dang turn in line like everyone else.
Rather than criminalizing immigrant workers, Congress should be considering the substantive proposals for immigration reform and the legalization of worker status proposed by both Democrats and Republicans.
Kathleen Moccio is a trustee of the American Immigration Law Foundation. Katherine Fennelly is a professor at the University of Minnesota's Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs.Please support our fight against illegal immigration by joining ALIPAC's email alerts here https://eepurl.com/cktGTn
-
04-27-2005, 03:34 PM #4Kathleen and Katherine Just maybe when you feel their wrath in your
neighbor, you will not be so pro-illegal immigration but if you two are,
take them home with you.Please support our fight against illegal immigration by joining ALIPAC's email alerts here https://eepurl.com/cktGTn
-
04-27-2005, 03:43 PM #5
- Join Date
- Feb 2005
- Posts
- 1,365
Why doesn't the OBL pay for the illegal alien benefits themselves instead of aiding and abetting the invasion off of our nickel?
Note that there was no mention of the cost to taxpayers and the fact that the vast majority of immigrants are uneducated. Criticizing them is like shooting fish in a barrel since they obviously did not do their research.
Maybe they just aren't smart enough.http://www.alipac.us Enforce immigration laws!
Update: Freeloading Illegal Alien Continues to Taunt U.S....
03-28-2024, 01:10 PM in illegal immigration News Stories & Reports